Senior Neonatal Ward Lead | Expert Nurse & Coach

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Luton; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in the neonatal area to lead the ward, ensure safe, patient-centred care and manage day-to-day operations in a seven-day service.

You will lead with visible clinical leadership, develop staff and students, and drive improvements while ensuring compliance with policies and the NMC Code of Conduct. This role requires compassionate leadership and a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Clinically experienced neonatal care nurse
• Act as an expert healthcare practitioner demonstrating advanced clinical skills, knowledge and decision making beyond those associated with the general multidisciplinary team
• Maintain and further develop own expert nursing practice skills, abilities and through effective role modelling ensure that the professional practice of colleagues is continually developed and enhanced.
• Work closely alongside neonatal, midwifery and obstetric teams to provide specialist nursing advice and leadership using expert knowledge, practice and critical judgement skills continually seek to identify areas of care where current practices could be changed or modified to improve patient/parent outcomes.
• To facilitate discharge of neonates providing initial support in the family home
• To liaise with the multidisciplinary team in relation to the discharge and follow up of neonates
• Liaise with Social Services where social circumstances raise concerns
• Develop, maintain and promote robust bereavement pathways, ensuring all parents are offered choice/equitable access to bereavement support.

Responsibilities

• Act as an expert healthcare practitioner with advanced clinical skills.
• Collaborate with neonatal, midwifery and obstetric teams to provide leadership using expert knowledge and judgement.
• Plan and facilitate discharge of neonates, including initial family home support.
• Coordinate discharge and follow-up with the multidisciplinary team.
• Liaise with Social Services when concerns arise about social circumstances.
• Develop and promote bereavement pathways to offer parents equitable access to support.

Job description

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in the neonatal area to lead the ward, ensure safe, patient-centred care and manage day-to-day operations in a seven-day service.

You will lead with visible clinical leadership, develop staff and students, and drive improvements while ensuring compliance with policies and the NMC Code of Conduct. This role requires compassionate leadership and a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.